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The radical lives of Helen Keller

Kim E. Nielsen

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Preface to the Electronic Edition
List of Illustrations
List of Video Clips
[Dedication]
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Introduction
1 I Do Not Like This World As It Is 1900-1924
2 The Call of the Sightless 1924-1937
3 Manna in My Desert Places 1937-1948
4 I Will Not Allow Polly to Climb a Pyramid 1948-1968
5 One of the Least Free People on Earth The Making and Remaking of Helen Keller
Additional Documents
- "An Apology For Going to College" by Helen Keller
- "A Chant of Darkness" by Helen Keller
- "Put Your Husband in the Kitchen" by Helen Keller
- "Strike Against War" by Helen Keller
- "Woman and Peace" by Helen Keller
- Address in Washington, D. C. (1925) by Helen Keller
- Letter to Will Rogers by Helen Keller
Notes
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the Introduction
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Notes to Chapter 5
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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Citable Link

Published: 2007

Publisher: New York University Press

ISBN(s)

9780814758465 (ebook)

Subject

American: 1900-present

Resources

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Anne Sullivan at twenty-one year of age, the year she met Keller.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Keller at the time of her Radcliffe graduation, 1904.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Anne Sullivan, 1881.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Kate Keller.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, New York City, 1895. Keller is sitting on the far left, facing left, holding Sullivan's hand.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Helen Keller, John Macy, and Anne Sullivan Macy, undated.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

White House, 1931. This crowd scene, just outside the White House, includes Keller, Macy, President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover in the front row. This photo was taken in 1931 during an international conference of workers for blind people. Also front and near-center is Robert B. Irwin, Executive Director of AFB.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, and Polly Thomson, 1932. Sullivan's Scottish terrier, probably Darky, and Keller's Great Dane, probably Helga, are included.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Keller near Orkney Islands, 1932.

AP/Wide World Photos.

Jo Davidson sculpting Helen Keller in his French studio.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Portrait of Helen Keller, Polly Thomson, and three unidentified World War II veterans, taken during her wartime hospital tours.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

At Moore General Hospital, North Carolina, 1945. Keller is meeting Sergeant Paul Grossman of Nebraska.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Helen Keller and Polly Thomson in Nagasaki, Japan, 1948.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Polly Thomson, Helen Keller, and unidentified U.S. military personnel in Japan, 1948.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Helen Keller and Polly Thomson in Fukuoka, Japan, 1948.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Polly Thomson and Helen Keller in Nagoya, Japan, 1948. Note Keller lip-reading Polly Thomson before the huge crowd.

Courtesy of the American Federation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Federation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Jo Davidson's 1945 bust of Helen Keller.

Corbis. © Bettmann/CORBIS. Used with permission.

Keller with Zulu tribes people in South Africa, 1951.

Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Used with permission of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives.

Formal portrait of Keller in 1955.

Photograph by William Sauro. © Bettmann/CORBIS. Used with permission.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller at the February 1, 1955, farewell banquet for Keller before her departure for India, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Japan.